Shayjonez

A story of hood life and love.

Annette Brooks is an easy going girl from the hood. She never starts anything she can't finish and never loses the fight. She is known for being a bookworm, so when she finds herself in the middle of a deadly fight, all things  hood become a reality. Annette is soon faced with old enemies and new, while she struggles to balance school, first love, family, and the demands of the streets. When things don't go as planed she finds herself in a few fight or flight situations. The incidents to follow will change her life forever.

Christian James thrives in trouble, but  when he sets his sights on Annette, he decides he's going to keep her. He has no idea the journey they will have. He didn't plan on loving her, after all he lived for the streets. He feels like she is his peace and with her anything is possible. Even getting out of the hood. When an attempt to make some easy money goes wrong, and strange incidents around them start happening, he realizes he will protect her at all cost. 

Together they stand in the face of many enemies.  They battle jealousy, temptation and hate. In the wake of it all they find comfort in friends that will follow where ever they lead and cross off names on ever growing  list of foes. While trying to survive, loyalties will be forgotten and love a question in their relationship. All they while all they want is out, every time the streets call them back. Will they make it out or just accept that It Is what it is.

Hood Life and Love: It Is What It Is

We caught the bus home that night. The guys went through every possible scenario that could come from the raid and the police being involved. No one wanted to close up shop. They hadn't found anything at the club house. No money, no guns and no drugs. They had been to Reese's house to, and found nothing there. This was a purely circumstantial case. They had nothing, but they would be watching us now. I knew that much and that meant we had to be careful and I had to get Christian out of jail. 


I had no idea how to do that. If there was a bond I would pay it in a heartbeat. I wanted to get a lawyer, there was no way I would have a public defender. When my mom's old man went to jail, she got him a lawyer. He was facing a lot of time, but it had been knocked down to five years, with probation after three years. 


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